John Balaban

After Our War

After our war, the dismembered bits- all those pierced eyes, ear slivers, jaw splinters,gouged lips, odd tibias, skin flaps, and toes - came squinting, wobbling, jabbering back.The genitals, of course, were the most bizarre,inching along roads like glowworms and slugs.The living wanted them back but good as new.The dead, of course, had no use for them.And the ghosts, the tens of thousands of abandoned souls